Offline $.ajax call in IE$ get response as String

[ikkyu]

description: Offline ajax call to an offline local html or xml file get response as String, not xml document, and cannot be use with selectors.

reproduction step:

• write ajax call to an offline local html/xml file.
• execute the html/script locally (not via server) in IE6
• The response data type is a String. A selector cannot be applied to the data.
• If specified dataType:"xml", it will call error function. But the response text is the same data string.

I search the Internet and found a website that describe exactly the same problem with a workaround.

​http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436670/local-html-file-ajax-call-and-jquery-woes

[manuel.richarz@…]

Using jQuery 1.4.4 and have exactly the same problem. The Workaround found in the posted Link work fine.

[jaubourg]

The new ajax implementation will automagically parse text as xml if dataType: "xml" has been specified. It's part of a much broader dataType conversion architecture.

[jitter]

#3598 is a duplicate of this ticket.